Hi there I'm Andrew and I'm drenched I'm
soaked to the skin I am wet through this
is an IELTS video this is going to help
you talk all about the weather topic in
your IELTS speaking exam we're going to
go through lots of idiomatic ways of
talking about weather especially
extremes of weather and later we're
going to go through a sample answer so I
can I'm going to show you how you can
put all these different expressions
together for a really good eye out
speaking answer to get great marks so I
was drenched I was soaked to the skin I
was wet through normally because it
rained not because I poured the water
over my head so how can you talk about
heavy rain in English it came down in
buckets the rain was torrential it was
an absolute downpour all expressions
that we news to talk about very heavy
rain what about heavy snow there was a
huge blizzard the snow fell thick and
fast in the end it was an absolute
whiteout when everything has gone white
how can you say that the weather was
very cold
it was absolutely Arctic out there
it was absolutely baltic out there it
was absolute brass monkey weather it was
so cold I couldn't feel my toes what
about the wind
there were very high winds all day long
it blew up a real gale what about when
it's hot it was baking hot it was
boiling hot it was like a furnace out
there the heat was stifling it was so
hot you could fry an egg on the pavement
and how about to describe how you feel
during hot weather I was melting I was
sweating like a pig I was sweating
buckets I was wilting in the heat so
here is an example i alt task - cue card
about the weather IELTS task 2 let's
show you how to put all of these
expressions together into a great IELTS
answer describe a time when you
experienced extreme weather well I once
went on holiday to Canada Canada is
famous for being a country in which you
can experience all four seasons in just
one day we went to a place called Banff
and we found out exactly why they say
what they do about Canada they started
with bright sunshine and it would end
that way too but what came in between
takes some believing we had breakfast
and then set out for a hike if something
takes some believing it just means it's
difficult to believe if you set out for
a before a hike then you go out for a
walk up some mountains or Hills we went
dressed for a possible shower sin
we'd seen the forecast but what we
didn't expect was a full-scale blizzard
the snow fell thick and fast at times
visibility was reduced to zero it was a
complete whiteout
it was perishing Glee cold
we couldn't even feel our toes the
blizzard was accompanied by extremely
high winds
it really did blow up a gale out there
so we stumbled down the mountain and
found a cafe where our feet fought out
after our lunch we ventured outside
again and it wasn't long before the
heavens opened
we'd felt that it was markedly warmer so
it wasn't that surprising that this time
it was rain that fell it came down in
buckets we quickly got completely wet
through and had to head back to our
hotel to change we changed into warm
clothes and went back out again so here
some collocations full-scale it means on
a huge scale a huge amount full-scale
perishing ly cold a collocation the
adjective perishing ly we news with the
now with news with cold too mean really
really really cold high winds the
collocation we news when the winds are
very strong or fast to four out if
something is frozen and then it warms up
then it falls out so a piece of meat
that's been in the freezer you take it
out you put it on the side in the
kitchen its fors out markedly is another
word that means the same thing as
noticeably to venture outside means the
same thing as to go outside but the idea
is that you're being a little bit brave
in going back outside in this case
because of how bad the weather was if
the heavens open then that means that it
starts to rain ya think
start to come down from the Skype to
head back is a phrasal verb it means the
same thing as to go back on with the
answer but we chosen completely the
wrong cloves for no sooner had we left
the hotel then the Sun came back out and
boy was it a hot Sun it was absolutely
baking hot for the rest of the afternoon
we were sweating like pigs and had to
stop for ice cream at frequent intervals
frequent intervals another collocation
two words that often go together it just
means that something happened are
regularly over a period of time frequent
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